HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows HP Part Number: 418812-005

range of host names. To use an existing hosts file, enter the hosts file name in the following format:
$HostsFileName .
Alternatively, you can create a separate discovery task for your SMI CIMOMs. See the HP Systems
Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/
management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.
5. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step, click Previous.
Configuring System Automatic Discovery task sign in credentials
The Credentials page enables you to specify sign in and SNMP credentials for the System Automatic Discovery
task.
1. To set the sign-in credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task, enter the user name and password.
To add additional sign-in credentials, click Add. To delete existing sign-in credentials, click Delete
beside the credentials that you want to delete.
2. To have HP SIM try other credentials if the entered credentials fail, select If these credentials fail, try
other credentials that may apply....
3. Enter read community strings for SNMP credentials for the System Automatic Discovery task.
To add additional SNMP credentials, click Add. To delete existing SNMP credentials, click Delete
beside the credentials that you want to delete.
4. To have HP SIM try other credentials if the entered credentials fail, select If these credentials fail, try
other credentials that may apply....
5. To go to the next First Time Wizard step, click Next, or to return to the previous step, click Previous.
Configuring managed systems
The Configure Managed Systems page in the First Time Wizard enables you to configure managed
systems as they are discovered and to specify parameters for running the Configure or Repair Agents. This
step is skipped if you did not configure discovery on the First Time Wizard Discovery page. All steps are
optional and can be configured from the HP SIM Options menu at a later time. To skip this step, click Next
to go to the next First Time Wizard step.
To configure managed systems from the First Time Wizard Configure Managed Systems page:
1. Select Configure newly managed systems when they are first discovered..
2. To specify credentials to configure the managed system for WBEM / WMI, SNMP, and SSH, select
from the following:
• Use the sign in credentials already entered in HP SIM This account must be an account with
administrative privileges.
• Use these credentials Select this option to use another user name and password pair other than
the one entered into HP SIM.
3. Under Configure WBEM / WMI, select from the following:
• Create subscriptions to WBEM events
• Send a test WBEM / WMI indication to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager to make sure
that events appear in HP Systems Insight Manager events lists
• Use an HP SIM WBEM certificate (good for 10 years) rather than username/password to manage
the system
4. Under Configure SNMP, select from the following:
• Set read community string
• Set traps to refer to this instance of HP SIM A read/write string is automatically created on
Windows systems.
• Send a test SNMP trap to this instance of HP Systems Insight Manager to make sure events appear
in the HP SIM event lists
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